Rapid, user-friendly boot
The operating environment for clients (diskless and disk based, stand-alone
and simple networked systems) is designed for end-users who
are not necessarily computer literate. It is therefore important
that the presentation of the system be simple and
user-friendly. Most presentation is handled by the embedded application,
but this is not available during boot and system
initialization. Accordingly, the operating system has been enhanced to
allow rapid, user-friendly booting. Two configurable messages are printed
during a normal start-up sequence, along with some limited
copyright information.
If the initial boot sequence fails, an error message is displayed. The operating system can be configured with this transparent booting on or off.